Conservation Corps
As a Corps member, you don’t just follow the pros. You become a pro. And, you don’t work alone. Corps are teams. As a member, you’ll live and work with like-minded individuals who share a connection to the land and the people who live there.
Corps members spend 3-10 months devoted to critical environmental issues such as wildfire management and education, trail restoration and maintenance, environmental education, and invasive species eradication. This is a great opportunity to give back while you learn from the land on the land. Join the many SCA Corps volunteers who know, there’s work to be done. Teamwork. Leadership. This is real get-your-hands-dirty conservation.
NEW POSITIONS RECENTLY ADDED to Hudson Valley, NH AmeriCorps Residential and Wildland Fire Corps
Programs
- Hudson Valley AmeriCorps
- Native Plant Corps
- AmeriCorps Residential Corps
- Desert Restoration Corps
- Trail Corps
- Sustainability Corps
- Wildland Fire Corps
Hudson Valley AmeriCorps
Created in 1999, the Hudson Valley AmeriCorps Program is dedicated to recognizing, preserving and interpreting the nationally significant historical, cultural and natural resources of New York's Hudson Valley. The program is a unique blend of SCA's Conservation Internship model and its Conservation Corps model. Interns are individually placed at state agencies and local non-profits and work one-on-one alongside conservation professionals. Interns also participate in trainings, service projects and celebrations with 25+ fellow corps members once each month. Between the personalized attention of site supervisors and the general support of the SCA Hudson Valley intern community, we like to say our program offers you the best of both worlds!
June/July 2009
- Stewardship & Ecological Management Assistant with TNC (filled)
- Catskill NYC Watershed Invasive Species Intern (filled)
- Environmental Educator with DEC Region 2
- Assistant Environmental Educator with Moreau Lake State Park
- Parks and Stewardship Assistant with Scenic Hudson
- Environmental Educator with Sharpe Reservation, The Fresh Air Fund (filled)
- Environmental Educator with Scenic Hudson (filled)
- Environmental Educator with Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center
- GIS/GPS Technician with the NY State Central Office
- Archeology Steward with Bear Mountain State Park
- Environmental Educator with Stony Kill Environmental Education Center
- Environmental Educator with Region 2 Office (filled)
- Environmental Educator with Five Rivers Educational Center
- Environmental Educator with Taconic Regional Office
- Environmental Educator/Bird Conservation with Central Office-Environmental Management Bureau
- Environmental Educator with Sharpe Reservation, Fresh Air Fund
Native Plant Corps
SCA's Native Plant Corps engages young adults in meaningful service learning opportunities to support resource managers in the restoration of native plant communities. Native Plant focuses on many different aspects including: inventory & monitoring, invasive plant control, seed collection, propogation, revegetation, herbaria and public outreach.
Immediate opening:
September 2009
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
- Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
- Sevilleta/Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
- San Andres/ White Sands National Wildlife Refuge
May 2009 (All Filled)
- Escalante National Monument
- Gateway National Park
- New Mexico Fish & Wildlife
AmeriCorps Residential Corps
We now have four residential programs. The locations are Adirondacks, NY; Bear Brook State Park, NH; Kenneth Dubuque State Forest, MA, and our newest is in Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho. Each program has 10 or more interns all living together on state lands. The NH and MA teams start in late fall/early winter and work with area schools with environmental education. When the seasons change to spring/summer, Adirondacks and Salmon-Challis gear up and all four teams go out into the field to work on trails. Find out more details about one of our Residential programs here: New Hampshire Conservation Corps
February/ March 2010
October 2009
June 2009
- NH Corps Sanctuaries and Conservation Intern
- NH Corps Garden and Community Outreach Intern
- NH Corps Visitor Services Intern
- NH Corps River Resource Management Intern (filled)
- NH Corps Interpretive Ranger
- Adirondacks Trail (filled)
March/ April 2009 (filled)
- Salmon-Challis AmeriCorps Forest Training Center
- Massachusetts Parks AmeriCorps Trail
Desert Restoration Corps
The Desert Restoration Corps (DRC) began in 1999 as a five week high school program conducting desert restoration in Wilderness areas of Southern California. Since then, the DRC has grown and now we work with up to seven field offices for the Bureau of Land Management throughout the California Desert District. With volunteer members in the field year round we have facilitated the processes of natural regrowth of thousands and thousands of acres of desert habitat.
October 2009
- Ridgecrest- Jawbone
- Ridgecrest- Rand Mountains
- Ridgecrest- El Paso
- Yuha Desert- Yuha
- California WildCorps
- Restoration Monitoring team
July 2009 (Filled)
- Inyo National Forest
Trail Corps
The Goal of the SCA Conservation Corps Trails Program is to provide meaningful opportunities to volunteers, while effectively preserving and enhancing trail corridors and historic sites on our public lands. We do the dirty work. We build turnpikes and bridges, water bars, and check steps, retaining walls and stairs, all so that others may have the opportunity share our enjoyment of the natural world, while minimizing their impact to these precious lands. We do this, so future generations can safely enjoy these areas, just as we have.
May 2009 (All Filled)
- Pacific Crest
- WildCorps North
- Manti-La Sal National Forest
- Eldorado National Forest
- Delaware Water Gap
Sustainability Corps
Creating better community with the environment in mind is what the Sustainability Corps is all about. For 2009 we will have two SCA sustainability projects: the Green Cities Project, based in Pittsburgh, PA and the Pennsylvania Trail Towns Corps, working with towns, businesses and residents along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail to become greener and grow.
Spring 2009
- Green Cities
Wildland Fire Corps
Wildland Fire consists of three programs: Education, Monitoring and Management. The Fire Education Teams provide Fire Education and Wildland Fire Prevention eduation while working in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, local Tribes and surrounding Communities. SCA FIREMON teams will use FIREMON protocols, basic vegetation identification techniques, GPS, and GIS to complete an array of projects aimed at protecting natural resource areas. Working in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, SCA Fire Management teams use prescribed fire, fuels reductions, fire effects monitoring (including FIREMON protocols), GPS, and GIS to complete an array of projects aimed at protecting natural resource areas.
September 2009
- BLM Southern California Fire Education Team *there will be three teams of members in the southern region of California
June 2009
May 2009
- Great Plains South Monitoring Team
- Eastern Oklahoma Traveling Monitoring Team
- Dixie National Forest Monitoring Team
- Great Plains Region Monitoring Intern
- Spokane Washington Monitoring Intern
- Albany Fire Management Team
- Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe Monitoring Intern
- Menominee Reservation Monitoring Intern
- Northwest Region Office Monitoring Intern
If a link does not work, the position may have been filled or canceled. For more information, please contact the SCA Conservation Corps program at 603-543-1700 or email nroyce@thesca.org or search for more positions online.
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